Remembering Phil Everly (2014)

Rock and Roll and country rock would not have been what it is without the Everly Brothers.

by Peter Stone Brown (2014)

I probably first heard the Everly Brothers when I was a real little kid about six or seven, playing in the driveway behind my family’s Northeast Philly row house blasting out of one of the ever present transistor radios that belonged to the bigger kids.  I’m not sure if it was “Bye Bye Love” or “Wake Up Little Susie,” but most definitely “Bird Dog.”  You couldn’t escape it.  Once in awhile I might catch them on TV and they always seemed to have this nervous energy. And for the next few years they were always on the radio, hit after hit.  And then they weren’t.